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Coding Blocks
Well, this is awkward. Coding Blocks is signing out for now, in this episode we’ll talk about what’s happening and why. We have had an amazing run, far better than we ever expected. Also, Joe recommends 50 games, Allen goes for the gold, and Outlaw is totally normal. (And we’re not crying you’re crying!) Thank you for the support over the last 11 (!!!) years. It's been a wild ride, and the last thing we ever expected when starting a tech podcast was getting to meet so many fantastic people. View the full show notes here: Tip of the Week UFO 50 is an odd collection of 50...
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Things to Know when Considering Multi-Tenant or Multi-Threaded Applications
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Two Water Coolers Walk Into a Bar
Coding Blocks
Grab your headphones because it's water cooler time! In this episode we're catching up on feedback, putting our skills to the test, and wondering what we're missing. Plus, Allen's telling it how it is, Outlaw is putting it all together and Joe is minding the gaps! View the full show notes here: Reviews Thank you again for taking the time to share your review with us! iTunes: Yesso95 Spotify: Auxk0rd, artonus News Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024 DevFest Central Florida September 28th, 2024 Two water coolers walk into a bar... Several folks share their origin...
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How did We Even Arrive Here?
Coding Blocks
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AI, Blank Pages, and Client Libraries...oh my!
Coding Blocks
It's Water Cooler Time! We've got a variety of topics today, and also Outlaw's lawyering up, Allen can read QR codes now, and Joe is looking at second careers. View the full show notes here: News As always, thank you for leaving us a review – we really appreciate them! Almazkun, vassilbakalov, DzikijSver Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024 DevFest Central Florida on September 28th, 2024 Interested? Submit your talk proposal here: Water Cooler How many programmers are there now? () Are we still growing? What will it be like when we stop growing? What will people be...
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Alternatives to Administering and Running Apache Kafka
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View the show notes on the web: In the past couple of episodes, we'd gone over what Apache Kafka is and along the way we mentioned some of the pains of managing and running Kafka clusters on your own. In this episode, we discuss some of the ways you can offload those responsibilities and focus on writing streaming applications. Along the way, Joe does a mighty fine fill-in for proper noun pronunciation and Allen does a southern auctioneer-style speed talk. Reviews As always, thank you for leaving us a review - we really do appreciate them! From iTunes: Abucr7 Upcoming Events Atlanta Dev...
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Nuts and Bolts of Apache Kafka
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Topics, Partitions, and APIs oh my! This episode we're getting further into how Apache Kafka works and its use cases. Also, Allen is staying dry, Joe goes for broke, and Michael (eventually) gets on the right page. The full show notes are available on the website at News Thanks for the reviews! angingjellies and Nick Brooker Please leave us a review! () Atlanta Dev Con is coming up, on September 7th, 2024 () Kafka Topics They are partitioned - this means they are distributed (or can be) across multiple Kafka brokers into "buckets" New events written to Kafka are...
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Intro to Apache Kafka
Coding Blocks
We finally start talking about Apache Kafka! Also, Allen is getting acquainted with Aesop, Outlaw is killing clusters, and Joe is paying attention in drama class. The full show notes are available on the website at News Atlanta Dev Con is coming up, on September 7th, 2024 () Intro to Apache Kafka What is it? Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Core capabilities High throughput - Deliver messages at...
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StackOverflow AI Disagreements, Kotlin Coroutines and More
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Reviews iTunes: ivan.kuchin News Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024 Topics People trying to remove their answers from StackOverflow to not allow OpenAI to use their answers without permission/recognition? Obfuscate data dumps with PostgreSQL Kotlin Coroutines Reminded Outlaw of the Cloudflare Workers we mentioned a while back Please leave us a review! You can control if YouTube keeps track of your history (at least that you can see) 100 Things You Didn't Know About Kubernetes Do the IDE AI's really make you more...
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Llama 3 is Here, Spending Time on Environmental Setup and More
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Full episode show notes can be found at:
info_outlineIt's Water Cooler Time! We've got a variety of topics today, and also Outlaw's lawyering up, Allen can read QR codes now, and Joe is looking at second careers.
View the full show notes here:
https://www.codingblocks.net/episode238
News
As always, thank you for leaving us a review – we really appreciate them! Almazkun, vassilbakalov, DzikijSver
Atlanta Dev Con
September 7th, 2024
https://www.atldevcon.com/
DevFest Central Florida on September 28th, 2024
Interested? Submit your talk proposal here:
https://sessionize.com/devfest-florida-orlando-2024/
Water Cooler
- How many programmers are there now? (statista.com)
- Are we still growing?
- What will it be like when we stop growing?
- What will people be doing instead?
- AI music generators are being sued! (msn.com)
- Curse of the Blank Page
- Naming things is important, gives them power…but also the power to defeat them!
- Don't make any one specific technology your hammer
- Client libraries that completely change with server upgrades
- What's the most important or relevant thing to learn as a developer now?
- Do you research or learn on vacation?
Tip of the Week
- Curated, High-Quality Stories, Essays, Editorials, and Podcasts based around Software Engineering. It's more polished and less experimental than PagedOut (Github)
Also, there's a new Paged Out, complete with downloadable art. It's more avant-garde than GIthub's Readme project, featuring articles on Art, Cryptography, Demoscenes, and Reverse Engineering. (pagedout.institute) - Travel Router - Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is used to pass the authentication information between the supplicant (the Wi-Fi workstation) and the authentication server (Microsoft IAS or other) (Amazon)
- Comparison of Travel Routers (gi.inet.com)
- Carrying case for router (Amazon)
- Travel power cube - 6 power outlets followed by 3 (Amazon)
- Did you know you that Windows has a built in camera QR code reader?
- Guava caching libraries in Java (Github)
- Caffiene is a more recent alternatitive (Github)
- Generative AI for beginners - "Learn the fundamentals of building Generative AI applications with our 18-lesson comprehensive course by Microsoft Cloud Advocates."
- Microsoft has a course for getting into generative AI! (microsoft.github.io)
- Claude is better than Chat GPT? (claude.ai)
- How to Get the Most out of Postgres Memory Settings - thanks Mikerg! (temb.io)